《Question in the Rain》 - Uchuu Mondo

…Dokan was well versed in military science and also excelled in the arts and sciences, and was on close acquaintance with Banri Shuku and other learned monks and writers from the Five Mountains. [Shimomura Nobuhiro] When Dokan went falconry and got caught in the rain and tried to borrow a raincoat, a young woman offered him a mountain bush clover. He realized that this was the meaning of an old poem (Miscellaneous in Goshuishū) that goes, “Seven-layered, eight-layered flowers bloom, but there is no Yamabuki no Hitotsu Da Naki Zo Sadashi,” and felt ashamed of his ignorance. This anecdote is well-known and is recorded in works such as Jōzan Kidan (written by Yuasa Jōzan, written around Genbun-Meiwa) and Amechu Mondō (written by Nishimura Tohri, 1778). The original form of the rakugo story Dokan that is passed down today was created in Otoshibanashi Warau Hayashi (written by the first Hayashiya Shozō) published in 1833 (Tenpō 4) by parodying this story. …

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…道灌は兵学に通じるとともに学芸に秀で，万里集九（ばんりしゆうく）ほか五山の学僧や文人との親交が深かった。【下村 信博】　道灌が鷹狩りに出て雨に遭い，蓑を借りようとしたとき，若い女にヤマブキをさし出され，それが〈七重八重花は咲けども山吹のみの一つだになきぞ悲しき〉という古歌(《後拾遺集》雑)の意だと知り，無学を恥じたという逸話は《常山紀談》(湯浅常山著，元文～明和ころ成立)や《雨中問答》(西村遠里著，1778)等に記されて著名。この話をもじって1833年(天保4)刊《落噺笑富林（おとしばなしわらうはやし）》(初世林屋正蔵著)中に現在伝えられる落語《道灌》の原形ができあがった。…

※「《雨中問答》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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